With a score of 31 (Them) to 10 (Us), Thursday’s preseason game between the San Diego Chargers and the Seattle Seahawks was not a win for the home team. As for the Qualcomm Stadium match between the fans and the NFL’s new security rules, that was more of a draw.

According to new National Football League public safety measures that just went into effect at stadiums across the country, fans must now limit their carry-in baggage to one see-through plastic or vinyl bag and one small clutch no bigger than 4½ x 6½ inches. No backpacks, no seat cushions and no hiding your giant cache of neon gummi worms.

So how did it go? From the lovers (“It’s about time!”) to the loathers (“This is stupid!”), here is a look at how Qualcomm’s first-day guinea pigs took one for the team.

Pregame Preppers: Tickets? Check. Cellphone? Check. Keys, gum, eyedrops, driver’s license and cash, all packed in a one-gallon Ziploc-style bag for maximum security efficiency? Done and done. Stefanie and Denis Peterson of Orange County saw the security warning when they checked the Chargers website for directions to the stadium, and again when they printed out their tickets. Which is how they ended up on the trolley with all their necessities in one regulation-friendly bag and no safety worries in their heads.

“Obviously, I’m more comfortable with my big bag, but I can do without it,” Stefanie said. “You never really know what anyone is carrying, so it’s nice they’re taking precautions. I’m just glad I knew about it before I came.”

It's in the bag: For the convenience of the uninformed and/or unprepared, members of the Ace Parking, Elite Security and Chargers staffs were handing out free plastic bags throughout the parking lot and near the stadium entrances. But for $5, you could buy a vinyl Chargers logo tote bag that was $4.95 cheaper at the Q than it is online. Season-ticket holders got the bags for free. Non season-ticket holder Casey Ranger ﻿of San Diego thought it was worth paying for. Even if it meant the world could see her children’s diapers.

“Not being able to bring in a diaper bag sucks, but this is a good deal for five bucks,” said the mother of 4½-year-old Kailyn and 2-year-old Riley, packing her just-purchased bag with blankets, baby wipes, keys, glasses, water bottles, hand sanitizer, sunflower seeds and diapers. “I would never carry a clear purse on a daily basis, but if this is the only way to bring stuff in, that’s fine. If people are offended by looking at diapers and baby wipes, that’s on them.”

When he first heard about the new security rules, Casey’s husband, Brandon, wasn’t sure he liked them. When he realized that his wife had whittled down her cargo to one bag, he reconsidered.

“There’s an advantage for the husbands,” Brandon said. “Now we don’t have to carry all their luggage around.”

Hell in a handbag: There didn’t appear to be total security-line chaos on Thursday, but there were snafus. There was some confusion about eyeglass cases (OK? Not OK?), and whether you could empty the contents of a purse into a plastic bag and then put the empty purse into the bag. On Friday, the Chargers’ office clarified that eyeglass cases can’t be bigger than clutch-purse size, and empty purses must be left in the car or at the free bag check in the parking lot.

And despite the Chargers’ best intentions — the emails to ticket-buyers, the Facebook page updates, the website warnings, the signs posted at the trolley stops, the $5 bags and the free ones — some people still made it all the way to the security lines with bags they couldn’t bring into the stadium. Many of those unlucky fans were women, and they were not happy.

“You cannot take your purse in at all. No fanny pack, no nothing,” one perturbed purse-owner could be heard shouting into her cellphone. “You can only bring in these see-through bags. That’s just stupid.”

From her post in the bag-check area, Emily Hill of the Chargers remained optimistic. Unlike some other teams, the Chargers were giving fans a free place to check their bags until after the game, and fans seemed happy that it was there. That was the hope, anyway.

“We thought we would have a lot more people complaining about it, but I think they understand,” said Hill, a ticket-sales rep who was a bag ambassador for the day. “Purses are the main thing. People think a clutch bag of any size is OK, and then they get to the front and they have to come back here.”

Tracy Blevins of Lemon Grove was one of those people. She loves the Chargers, but after leaving her treasured Coach purse in the bag-check tent, her game face was starting to slip.

“It’s ridiculous. I didn’t hear anything about any of this,” said Blevins, looking with dismay at the bagged contents of her purse, including a rainbow lollipop she bought at Big Lots. “I hope they don’t say I can’t take my sucker in. Maybe I should eat it now so I won’t have to worry about it.”